Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Dacre

civil parish:-

Dacre (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY45912658 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY4526

10Km square:-

NY42

BLM29.jpg From the hill to the SE, near the vicarage.
(taken 23.12.2005)
photograph

BLM35.jpg (taken 23.12.2005)

evidence:-

old map:- Lloyd 1573
placename:- Daker

source data:-

Map, hand coloured copper plate engraving, Angliae Regni, Kingdom of England, with Wales, scale about 24 miles to 1 inch, authored by Humphrey Lloyd, Denbigh, Clwyd, drawn and engraved by Abraham Ortelius, Netherlands, 1573.

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Lld1Cm.jpg
"Daker"
item:- Hampshire Museums : FA1998.69
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evidence:-

old map:- Sanson 1679
placename:- Daker

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.

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SAN2Cm.jpg
"Daker"
circle, building and tower, flag; town?
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Dacor

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.

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"Dacor"
circle, tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Dacre

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

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"Dacre"
blocks, and usually a church, labelled in upright lowercase; a village
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag
item:- placename, Dacre

source data:-

Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.

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Gentleman's Magazine 1795 p.985 "... Dacre according to Burn, is noted for having given name to, or rather received its name from, the Barons of Dacre, who continued there for many ages. It is mentioned by Bede, as having a monastery there in his time; as also by Malmesbury, for being the place where Constantine, king of the Scots, and Eugenius, king of Cum-"

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag 1795

source data:-

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Gentleman's Magazine 1795 p.986 "[Cum]berland, put themselves and their kingdom under the protection of the English king, Athelstan. The true name of the family was D'Acre, from one of them who served at the siege of Acre (or Ptolemais) in the Holy Land; who, from his achievements there, having received the name of the place, imparted the same at his return to his habitation in Cumberland."
"When this noble family deserted their ancient mansion, the castle, I am not informed. The estate was sold by Anne Lennard, Baroness Dacre, and others, in the year 1716, to Sir Christopher Musgrave, of Edenhall, bart. who conveyed it to the grandfather of the present proprietor Edward Hassell, of Dalemanin, Esq."
"..."
"W. M."

evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Dacre

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.

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"DACRE"
item:- JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag

source data:-

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Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 1 p.404
From the Compendium of County History:- "930. At Dacre, Constantine King of Scotland, with his son Eugenius, did homage to Athelstan."

evidence:-

descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
item:- geology

source data:-

Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.

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Page 161:- "A superincumbent bed of limestone, by some called the mountain, by others the upper transition limestone, mantles round these mountains, in a position unconformable to the strata of the slaty and other rocks upon which it reposes. It bassets out near ... Berrier, Dacre, Lowther ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Dacre

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

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"Dacre"
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Dacre

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.